* 1823 – Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

* 1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer ( d. 1980 )

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

* 1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter ( d. 1995 )

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

* 1899 – Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1899 )

* Haliotis walallensis Stearns, 1899 – the northern green abalone or flat abalone – synonym: Haliotis fulgens var.

* 1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist ( d. 1988 )

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

* 1899 – Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer ( d. 1963 )

* 1899 – Charlie Hall, English actor ( d. 1959 )

* Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1874 – 1899 )

* 1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian author ( d. 1951 )

* 1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.

In 1899, Ladislas Deutsch ( Laszlo Detre ) ( 1874 – 1939 ) named the hypothetical substances halfway between bacterial constituents and antibodies " substances immunogenes ou antigenes ".

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1899 – 1908

* A 1912 book, The Depths of the Ocean by Sir John Murray, records the depth of the Challenger Deep as, reporting the sounding taken by the converted navy collier USS Nero in 1899.

* 1899 – Sir Noël Coward, English playwright, actor and composer ( d. 1973 )

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

* A. Graves and W. V. Cronin, A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( 1899 – 1901, 4 volumes ).

* 1821 – Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor ( d. 1899 )

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He became Sir Henry Morton Stanley when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1899, in recognition of his service to the British Empire in Africa.

The most notable of the hotels is the King Arthur's Castle Hotel ( Castle Hotel ) ( more recently the Camelot Castle Hotel ) which was an enterprise of Sir Robert Harvey and opened in 1899: the architect was Silvanus Trevail.

* Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 – 1625, by Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bart., Edinburgh, 1899, p. 256.

* Sir Samuel Way, 1st Baronet, of Montefiore, in South Australia ( 1899 ), extinct 1916

In March 1899 the British proposed, in a Note from Sir Claude MacDonald to China, a new boundary between China and British India.

' Early Days of the Canadian Institute ' by Sir Sandford Fleming was published in 1899.

* Sir George Ferguson Bowen ( 1821 – 1899 ), colonial administrator and 9th Governor of Hong Kong

Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG ( 24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899 ) was the eighth Premier of New Zealand.

* 1886-1902 Sir William Pollitt ( knighted 1899, later Lord Stuart of Wortley )

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman GCB ( 7 September 183622 April 1908 ) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908.

On 6 February 1899 Campbell-Bannerman succeeded Sir William Vernon Harcourt as Leader of the Liberals in the House of Commons, and Leader of the Opposition.

Mabel Edeline Strickland, OBE ( 8 January 1899 – 29 November 1988 ), an Anglo-Maltese journalist, newspaper proprietor and politician, was the daughter of Sir Gerald Strickland ( later Lord Strickland ), the former Prime Minister of Malta ( 1927 – 1932 ).

After assisting Sir W. W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India in the early 1880s, Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels.

In 1899 McLennan's theories were criticized by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, an English anthropologist who rejected the confusion of totemism with mere worship of animals and plants.

In 1899, at the jubilee commemoration of Sir George Stokes, he was Rede lecturer at Cambridge, his subject being the wave theory of light and its influence on modern physics ; and on that occasion the honorary degree of D. Sc.